Community Policing in New London
The New London Public Safety Policy Review Committee has suggested the formation of a civilian police review board and the creation of a police commission, The Day reports.
The committee, which released a 17-page report with a list of recommendations aimed at providing more community oversight and police accountability, was spearheaded by New London Mayor Michael Passero ’79 and John McKnight, Connecticut College’s dean of institutional equity and inclusion, who served as the group’s facilitator.
McKnight, the founder of Conn’s Agnes Gund ’60 Dialogue Project, said that the committee was formed in June following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis.
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Should Milwaukee accept a federal grant to pay for 30 additional police officers?
Some Milwaukee officials, including Mayor
Tom Barrett, believe it’s a simple answer: yes.
But a majority of the Common Council has argued it’s far more complicated.
The council rejected the grant’s acceptance on an 6-8-1 vote Tuesday before one member used a procedural move to set it up to be voted on again in January.
If there is a best practice for the handling of shootings of civilians by law enforcement, the investigation into the death of Casey C. Goodson Jr. is not it.
For more than a week now, four separate law enforcement agencies have batted around responsibility for the investigation like children swatting shuttlecocks around a grade-school gymnasium.
Where to begin?
We have had the city of Columbus, which was not involved in the shooting but tasked with investigating it, ask for the assistance of the state. For a brief period it seems they were told, yes, until Attorney General Dave Yost stepped in and said no.